Test 11 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

so the frog's sewing was dead wrong, what was up with the coat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sewing, frog · What happens: be, sew

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	8 wrong	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 frog	case
5	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wrong	amod
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coat	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 coat	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 coat	cop
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 was	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 coat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coat	det
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the frog's sewing	wrong property	tree rules
2	is	past		with the coat	tree rules
3	sew		the frog		nom sewing «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

it was too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 short	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 short	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 short	advmod
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					short property	tree rules

Option 2

it was too loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loose	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loose	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loose	advmod
4	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					loose property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it bulged and was too tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bulged	nsubj
2	bulged	bulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tight	cc
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tight	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tight	advmod
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bulged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bulge	past	it						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past						tight property	tree rules

Option 4

it had holes and was far too small for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 small	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 small	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 small	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	holes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	is	past						for him = he; far, small property	tree rules

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